>> Big mistake. A national divorce doesn’t work as the first civil war demonstrated
>It worked fine. The South created a functioning govt. and a huge Army to repel an invasion from scratch! All in about 3 months. The war didn’t go so well but then again their shouldn’t have been a war after the secession. Lincoln wanted that war.
>>The war didn’t go so well but then again their shouldn’t have been a war after the secession.
Here’s the problem: The left is going to give you that war no matter what. The entire problem with the left is their inability to leave people alone who don’t believe as they do. They’re the Marxists and Communists who don’t rest until everyone thinks their way or is dead from a bullet in the back of the head.
During the Russian civil war the countryside basically followed what your suggesting. They let the cities go Communist while the countryside ignored them and stayed to their old ways. They thought the Marxists would starve to death in a few months so no reason to root them out. Instead the Marxist used their superior population density to raid the countryside for food and resources which ended up starving the whites out.
In the case of a civil war we have to take the fight to them right away and then remove them from the country or they will invade us and kill us all. National divorce doesn’t work.
R U kidding me? If Texas seceded the left would be celebrating the streets. The would dominate politics forever then. They want this divorce as much as we do.
If that Russian revolution had had to deal with the countryside being vastly more armed and proficient than the city marxists it would have fizzled.
As it stood you had a vast countryside population hardly above the level of still being serfs and scattered over a huge area where you as often as not wouldn’t have any social or cultural similarities to people as little as 50-100 miles away.
If you HAD a weapon then you’d maybe have 10 or 20 rounds of ammo, and that was if you were relatively wealthy and weren’t still using a muzzle loader.
Today here in the US somewhere between 15 and 20 million people fielding hunting rifles alone that will remove an individual from conflict permanently if the target is hit pretty much anywhere from knees or elbows inward towards the torso.